Lead India

The Lead India Contest ended in good note. R.K.Misra won the contest. The profile of people who particiapted and judged is quite good. Even though my favourite contender Sanjiv Kaura could not make to the finalist nevertheless the contest is excellent. Ofcourse Sanjiv Kaura and Depayen Dey got some awards, it was also good to see all the 8 finalist notably Saumya Misra( who could not take part because of duty). A Good Contest, should Continue. Times Of India should be thanked for bringing this.

Lead India Contest.

The Lead Inida Contest by Times of India is unique initiative and very good.It provides new platform for leaders to showcase there qualities and move forward.The judges are very good-Kiran Bedi,Javed Aktar,Vikas Singh senior editor,TOI.The program is well conducted and neatly organised.The contestants are very good.It started with 32682 and today it is between 4 of them Sanjiv Kaura(My favourite) , Devang Nanawati, Abha Singh and R K Mishra.I have watched all the episodes so far and find Sanjiv Kaura to be very good and want him to win. After seeing the results of public voting on Sunday in TOI, i saw Sanjiv Kaura is trailing in public votes and i decided to campaign for him. As of now i have spokes to few people and initiated a campaign.All the best all contestants and i hope Sanjiv Kaura to win!.

Google Transliterate sight!

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Tamil எங்கு செல்கிறது கூகிள் , யார் இவர்கள், எங்கிருந்து குதித்தார்கள். (Where is google heading, Who are these people and from where they have come!) In Die hard 4, a hacker comments about the villians (Computer Geek/Hacker) that he just came out of nowhere! Google people are like dropping from nowhere!

Tare Zameen Par

What a movie it is emotionally packed. Also reminds us about the responsibility of the individual to treat the kids equally and not to compare one kids with other ("Every children is special"). Aamir also talks about kids should be allowed to follow their dreams and parents should not impose their dreams. Sometimes i think this is difficult though.Do the child really knows-what he/She wants? Aamir also emphasis the confidence that should be given, when they need it or when they are in trouble.This is true not only for kids. and many more...watch it.

Shocked!Photos vapourised! A digital lesson learnt.

Shocked!I have been an regular user of splashblog,www.splashblog.com,since i am having a windows mobile phone.After transferred to a different place and did not activated my gprs, I did not use splash blog for quite some time.Suddenly today morning i came to upload some photo and shocked to see the blog is not there and after search i found the company and site is closed.Now all my photos are lost!.I have written an appreciation mail to splashblog when i used there service. But now it is horrible to imagine my photos have vapourised.It is a shame for digital companies, since we are using their service for free does not mean , it can be wiped out. This gives a feeling the web is not matured yet and the responsibility of the companies are only ,limited, unlike brick.May be we should create a digital warehouse, to save the data in the web and make the companies responsibility to dump there in case of acquisition or shutting down to safeguard the data, so that the interested parties may pay some amount and retrieve the data. Lessons learnt- Data on web is not safe , Have a back up.

Team Work Works!T20-world cup

What a match!nail biting, thriller. Sherlock holes, Fredrick Forsyth, jeffery archer and everyone in a single day, in 30 minutes time, Twist and turns, see saw.. and many more words. But in the end of the day, it is not only winning all that counts, but the performance as a team. Pakistan also put up a great fight, but that day and this series is a win for Indian teams TEAM WORK. Look at the charge everyone is on, each infusing that to the next guy and it was spread like fire. Dhoni has right said, he has not seen such a dressing room for years. The ups and down of individual was observed by the team and in totality they won, if in one match Yuvraj scored, then in another Gambir scored, but Pathan ,RP,Srisant, Sharma,Utthapa completed equally. At the end of the day, we were not able to associate the win to one guy, but has to give it to the team. That is team work, we should not be able to single out. we can only say the team works and different people may give the credit to different people, this is an indication of the Teams total strength.

Failures should be in curriculum

I have been thinking about writing about failures for quite some time. I am wondering why we were not taught or encouraged to fail in school or college. (Or has it been taught to us indirectly)- No body would recommend there children to fail in any subject and even children are afraid to fail. I remember failing in my classes once I think I got 27 marks in social studies when I was in 4th or 5th standard and I remember a long preparation to disclose this to my parents( right time to deliver so that you will not be thrashed, tough nothing like that happened) This is one of the most important learning we all need in our work or domestic life as we all know we cannot succeed all the time. Thinking back may be we should encourage kids to experiment and fail, that way they will try to venture in new domains. And even if they fail in the subjects, we should teach to cope up rather than admonishing. I also think there may be some statistical evidence that people who have failed in their schools and college may have the courage to take risk and do well in their profession. They have better experience in failing and learning than the person who has scored good marks always. List of personalities who have failed..Edison, Lincoln.. I think we can list all the great people in the top, each would have failed many times. I think that’s what experience is all about, it does not mean an experience person will not fail, but he knows it is inevitable and how to cope with that. Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.